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UAMS, Partners Provide Food Lockers for Local Pantry
FAYETTEVILLE — New Community Food Lockers installed at St. James Missionary Baptist Church will allow the church’s food pantry clients to receive food outside of regular business hours. The lockers were installed as part of a joint effort between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), the Northwest Arkansas Food Insecurity Community of Practice…
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August 16, 2023
UAMS Study Finds Many Rural Women Cancer Patients Receive Financial Support through Social Networks
FAYETTEVILLE — Rural women with cancer often receive financial support from within their communities and from formal organizations, but not all patients have equal access to this assistance, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Office of Community Health & Research. To better understand financial challenges and…
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UAMS Department of Emergency Medicine Granted $1.5 Million to Further Non-Opioid Pain Management Strategies
A $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will allow the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Emergency Medicine to revolutionize the ways in which it treats pain and trains new doctors. The award funds a three-year project to train UAMS emergency physicians, advanced practice…
August 14, 2023
UAMS Hand Surgeon Becomes First Surgical Patient at The Orthopaedic & Spine Hospital
Just two and a half weeks after Thomas Frazier, M.D., underwent a total knee replacement as the first surgical patient at The Orthopaedic & Spine Hospital at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), he was back to seeing patients in his orthopaedic clinic. By the third week, he was performing surgery at the…
August 11, 2023
Researchers Recruiting Rural Arkansans for Project Heal Research
The Project Heal Rural Arkansas team is recruiting qualified individuals to participate in their violence intervention research. A research study supported by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Translational Research Institute KL2 Scholars Program and housed in the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health’s Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Project…
UAMS Meet-and-Greet Event Celebrates Student Summer Researchers
On June 21, the longest day of the year and the summer solstice, about 200 student researchers over the course of two hours gathered in the grassy courtyard of the UAMS Biomedical Research II building to share Loblolly Ice Cream and socialize. Mohamed Elasri, Ph.D., UAMS associate vice chancellor for research, attended and said the…
August 10, 2023
First Students Graduate, Earn Master’s Degrees in Dietetics at UAMS
The first nine UAMS students to earn Master of Science degrees in dietetics graduated Aug. 4 in a milestone event for them and for the degree program they had just completed.
UAMS’ Erika Petersen, M.D., Johnathan Goree, M.D., Oversee NFL-funded Study of Non-Opioid Concussion Treatments
LITTLE ROCK — The National Football League (NFL) and the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) recently awarded more than half a million dollars to medical researchers, including two pain specialists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), to study non-opioid alternatives for treating post-traumatic headache, a common after-effect of concussion and other forms of…
UAMS Brain Injury Program to Offer Free Virtual Workshop Aug. 24
LITTLE ROCK — The UAMS Institute for Digital Health and Innovation’s Brain Injury Program will host a virtual workshop, “Post-traumatic Stress Disorder 101,” on Aug. 24 to connect anyone affected by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) to helpful resources and support.
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